Virtual Retreats

Virtual Retreats are intensive retreats, teachings and workshops where you will receive live teachings, engage in guided practice, hands-on learning, and connect with other participants through live Zoom webcasts during consecutive days or daylong offerings.

Machig’s Last Instructions – VIRTUAL RETREAT

With Lama Tsultrim Allione

April 23 - 25, 2021

Online - Zoom

In this retreat you will engage with the powerful teachings of the great Tibetan yogini, Machig Labdrön, on the ‘nature of mind’ as taught by her emanation, Lama Tsultrim Allione.

Naga Puja: Pacifying the Nagas – VIRTUAL RETREAT

With Lama Gyurme Rabgye

May 2 - 6, 2021

Master artist and teacher Lama Gyurme is delighted to introduce the art of torma making and the offering practice for the Nagas.

Transmission of the Yab Yum Mandala – VIRTUAL RETREAT

With Lama Tsultrim Allione

May 8, 2021

Online - Zoom

Experience transformation through the power of the mandala—a universal map for inner and outer balance, wholeness, and practical awakening. During this virtual teaching, Lama Tsultrim Allione will give the transmission of the Yab Yum Mandala, a practice she developed to bring emotional transformation into alignment with the spiritual path.

‘Live’ Webcast – Oral Transmission (Tib. Lung) for Green Tara, CNNR Chöd, and Riwo Sangchö

With Lama Tsultrim Allione

May 15, 2021

Online - Zoom

Anyone is welcome to receive a Lung as a blessing and connection to a certain practice. If you have already received the Lung, you are welcome to receive it again as a blessing.

Yuthok Nyingthig Karmamudra – VIRTUAL RETREAT

With Donla Tsering and Erik Jampa Andersson

May 20 - 23, 2021

Online - Zoom

‘The Yoga of Bliss’ refers to the ancient Buddhist practice of sexual yoga, known as Karmamudra, which uses specific techniques to transform the raw energy of ordinary pleasure, worldly desire, and orgasm into a path of liberation from suffering in our cyclic existence. This practice has been an essential part…

Liberation through Love and Rage – VIRTUAL RETREAT

With Lama Rod Owens

May 28 - 30, 2021

Online - Zoom

Join Lama Rod for a weekend of exploring the profound path of liberation through love and rage.

Tara Mandala Dharma Teacher & Sangha Leader Retreat – VIRTUAL RETREAT

With Lama Tsultrim Allione

June 3 - 7, 2021

Online - Zoom

This retreat is for Tara Mandala Authorized and Apprentice Teachers and Satellite Sangha leaders and is by invitation only.

Being Light Messengers of Darkness – VIRTUAL RETREAT

With Osho Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

June 10 - 16, 2021

Online - Zoom

Together in this retreat you will be offered various blessings of protection and meditations created by Zenju Sensei. You also will have the opportunity to open your heart to darkness through eight gateways using the dark mothers as protectors.

Lion-Headed Dakini (Simhamukha) – VIRTUAL RETREAT

With Magyu Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam, Ellen Booth Church and Miranda Shaw

June 22 - 30, 2021

Online - Zoom

This retreat offers transmission and teachings on the Lion-Headed Dakini (Simhamukha) practice as well as on Lama Tsultrim’s personal transformation work within the mandala. Simhamukha is known as a powerful remover of obstacles and as Queen of the Dakinis.

Ösel Nyingtig: Yeshe Tsogyal Sadhana Retreat – VIRTUAL RETREAT

With Lama Tsultrim Allione and Tulku Ösel Dorje

July 9 - 11, 2021

Online - Zoom

The teachings found within this practice are considered advanced and this retreat is restricted to those individuals who have maintained their Dakini Ngöndro daily practice commitment over this last year since receiving the teachings from Lama Tsultrim Allione and Tulku Ösel Dorje.

Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Sacred Masculine – VIRTUAL RETREAT

With Pieter Oosthuizen and Karla Jackson-Brewer, M.S.

July 13 - 19, 2021

Online - Zoom

This training offers a journey into the Mandala of the Five Buddhas practice developed by Lama Tsultrim Allione to bring emotional transformation into alignment with the spiritual path.

Vajrayana Retreat: The Mandala Principle – VIRTUAL RETREAT

With Magyu Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam

August 5 - 10, 2021

Online - Zoom

This retreat offers an historical and philosophical overview of the Vajrayana and explores the mandala principle as a guiding framework for understanding and embodying the richness of the Vajrayana path.

Sowa Rigpa Revolution: Immersion into Tibetan Medicine and the Yuthok Nyingthig Cycle – VIRTUAL RETREAT

With Erik Jampa Andersson

August 27 - 31, 2021

Online - Zoom

In this retreat, Tibetan Medicine practitioner and teacher Erik Jampa Andersson will present the foundational history, theories, and healing modalities of Tibetan Medicine, based on the teachings of Yuthok's Root Tantra (རྩ་རྒྱུད་).

The Spiritual Path of Birth and Motherhood – VIRTUAL RETREAT

With Magyu Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam and Gena McCarthy RN, MFT

September 25, 2021

Online - Zoom

We gather as a community of mothers and mothers-to-be to explore birthing and motherhood as a rich and profound spiritual path. Our time will include traditional dharma teachings and practices as well as age-old wisdom surrounding the nature of birth and motherhood.

Sacred World, Luminous Vision: Songs of Realization of the Mahasiddhas – VIRTUAL RETREAT

With Magyu Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam

November 20 - 21, 2021

Online - Zoom

In this joyful weekend virtual retreat we will explore through meditation and discussion several songs of realization by Tilopa, Milarepa, Saraha and others. Igniting our own luminous vision, we’ll bring these inspiring teachings to life through our own creative writing.

Ösel Nyingtig Cycle: Tröma Chöd – VIRTUAL RETREAT

With Lama Tsultrim Allione and Tulku Ösel Dorje

December 2 - 5, 2021

Online - Zoom

This teaching on Tröma's Practice Chöd is permeated with the secret Dzogchen teachings and is considered extremely esoteric and advanced. Therefore, this practice is only open and required to those who have maintained the practice commitments for the Dakini Ngöndro and the Yeshe Tsogyal sadhana within Ösel Nyingtig.